The Nun II (2023) Production Notes

1956 - France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.

Please note: Some production notes may contain spoilers.

New Line Cinema brings you the horror thriller “The Nun II,” the next chapter in the story of “The Nun,” the highest grossing entry in the juggernaut $2 billion “The Conjuring” Universe, which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary.

1956 – France. A priest is murdered. An evil is spreading. The sequel to the worldwide smash hit follows Sister Irene as she once again comes face-to-face with Valak, the demon nun.  Taissa Farmiga (“The Nun,” “The Gilded Age”) returns as Sister Irene, joined again by Jonas Bloquet (“Tirailleurs,” “The Nun”) as Maurice, along with Storm Reid (“Missing,” “The Suicide Squad”) as Sister Debra, Anna Popplewell (“Reign,” “The Chronicles of Narnia” trilogy) as Kate and Bonnie Aarons (reprising her role from “The Nun”), surrounded by an ensemble cast of international talent—Katelyn Rose Downey (“The Princess”) as Sophie, Suzanne Bertish (“Dead Ringers”) as Madame Laurent, Léontine D’Oncieu (“Two Tickets to Greece”) as Simone, Anouk Darwin Homewood (“The Flood”) as Celeste and Gael Raës (“Simone: Woman of the Century”) as Cedric.

Michael Chaves (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”) directs, from a screenplay by Ian Goldberg & Richard Naing (“Eli,” “The Autopsy of Jane Doe”) and Akela Cooper (“M3GAN,” “Malignant”), with a story by Cooper, based on characters created by James Wan & Gary Dauberman.

The Safran Company’s Peter Safran and Atomic Monster’s James Wan produce, continuing their collaboration as filmmakers on all of the previous “Conjuring” films. “The Nun II” is executive produced by Richard Brener, Dave Neustadter, Victoria Palmeri, Gary Dauberman, Michael Clear, Judson Scott and Michael Polaire.

Joining Chaves behind the camera are director of photography Tristan Nyby (“The Dark and the Wicked,” “The Maiden”), production designer Stéphane Cressend (“Les Vedettes,” “The French Dispatch”), editor Gregory Plotkin (2022’s “Scream,” “Get Out”) and costume designer Agnès Béziers (“Oxygen,” “The Breitner Commando”), with composer Marco Beltrami (2022’s “Scream,” ”Venom: Let There Be Carnage”) and music supervisor Ian Broucek (“The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” “Warriors”).

“The Conjuring” Universe is the highest grossing horror franchise in history with $2+ billion worldwide. Globally, four of “The Conjuring” Universe titles have earned more than $300 million worldwide each (“The Nun,” $366 million; “The Conjuring 2,” $322 million; “The Conjuring,” $320 million; “Annabelle: Creation,” $307 million), and all seven have each grossed more than $200 million. “The Nun” is the top-earning film in the franchise, with more than $366 million worldwide. New Line Cinema presents an Atomic Monster / Safran Company production, “The Nun II,” distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is set to open in North America on September 8, 2023, and internationally beginning 6 September 2023.

ABOUT THE CAST…

TAISSA FARMIGA (Sister Irene) recently wrapped filming the lead role of Sister Irene in New Line Cinema’s highly anticipated sequel “The Nun II,” which will be released on September 8th, 2023. Farmiga will next be seen in season two of Julian Fellowes’ hit HBO series “The Gilded Age,” opposite Cynthia Nixon and Carrie Coon. Taissa was last seen in Pascual Sisto’s feature “John and the Hole,” opposite Michael C. Hall, which premiered at Sundance 2021; Clint Eastwood’s feature “The Mule,” opposite Bradley Cooper for Warner Bros. Pictures; as the lead in New Line’s “The Nun”; and in “What They Had,” opposite Michael Shannon and Hilary Swank, which premiered at Sundance 2018.

Her previous credits include Warren Beatty’s “Rules Don’t Apply,” Hannah Fidell’s “The Long Dumb Road (which premiered at Sundance 2018), the New Group’s revival of Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Buried Child,” Ryan Murphy’s hit FX series “American Horror Story,” and Sofia Coppola’s A24 feature “The Bling Ring,” which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

JONAS BLOQUET (Maurice) is an actor from Belgium. His first acting experience was the lead role in "Elève Libre" (“Private Lessons”) by Joachim Lafosse, selected at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in 2008, and for which Jonas was nominated in the category of "Meilleurs espoirs" at the Magritte 2011.

He arrived in Paris in 2010 to study theater at the "Eva Saint Paul" course for three years. He followed this with a director training at the Ecole de la Cité.

During these five years of study, he participated as an actor in several short films, series and feature films, including: Luc Besson's “Malavita” (“The Family”), McG's “3 Days To Kill,” Guillaume Brac's “Tonnerre,” Arnaud des Pallières' “Orpheline” (“Orphan”), and Paul Verhoeven's “Elle,” where he played the role of Vincent, Isabelle Huppert's son, which earned him a nomination at the 2017 César, once again in the "Best Hopes" category.

He played a leading role in “The Nun” and is currently starring in the series “Marie Antoinette” on Canal+/PBS and “1899” on Netflix. Also, he recently starred in “Les Tirailleurs” (“Father & Soldier”) by Mathieu Vadepied, presented in Cannes in 2022. On the directing side, there are three of his short films that made the festival circuit from 2015 to 2018. He now juggles between writing, directing and acting.

STORM REID (Sister Debra) is an actress and producer. She is perhaps best-known for starring as Meg in Disney’s live-action adaptation of the acclaimed children's novel “A Wrinkle in Time,” which was directed by multi-award winner Ava DuVernay. The film also starred Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling. With numerous credits to her name, Reid is a fresh face, and she has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most sought-after young actors.

Reid landed her first feature film role opposite Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in the Academy Award-winning film “12 Years a Slave,” directed by Steve McQueen, and continued in Judy Greer’s directorial debut “A Happening of Monumental Proportions” and “Sleight,” which premiered at Sundance and was picked up by Blumhouse.

In 2020, Reid was seen in Blumhouse’s “The Invisible Man,” alongside Elizabeth Moss. She also appeared in the Blumhouse thriller “Don’t Let Go,” opposite David Oyelowo, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. On the small screen, Reid can be seen in Ava DuVernay’s Netflix limited series “When They See Us,” based on the Central Park Five. The series racked up 16 Emmy nominations and garnered two wins. She also stars alongside Zendaya in HBO’s “Euphoria,” which was nominated for the 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series; the series received 16 total nominations and won six. Storm plays Gia Bennett, Rue’s (Zendaya) younger sister. The story follows a group of high school students navigating issues of drugs, sex, and violence. This gritty drama first premiered on June 9, 2019, and has completed airing its second season. Reid also voiced Nia in Hulu’s animated children’s series “The Bravest Knight”; the series received a 2020 GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Kids & Family Programming.

In 2013, Reid and her mother, Robyn Simpson, launched A SEED & WINGS Productions, an independent multimedia production house rooted in narratives that forge multi-cultural conversations, entertain, educate and uplift. Their desire is to create authentic storytelling that is impactful, honest and reflects the perspectives of all people. In 2021, Reid starred in Facebook Watch’s “Chop It Up,” a conversation series by way of cooking. The series was created and produced by Reid and her mother, Robyn Simpson, through their production company. Each episode, viewers watched Reid and one of her friends discuss topics from dating to ethics, all while preparing a meal together. It was just announced that Reid will star and produce, alongside Simpson under their banner, the Paramount feature “Becoming Noble.”

Reid was seen in the 2021 Warner Bros. Pictures’ film “The Suicide Squad.” More recently, she starred alongside Machine Gun Kelly, Kevin Bacon and Drea de Matteo in Saban’s “One Way”; in “Missing,” the standalone sequel of the “Searching” franchise, opposite Nia Long; and in the hit HBO Max series “The Last of Us,” opposite Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey.

Reid is a brand ambassador for Prada, Maybelline New York, New Balance and Dark & Lovely. She recently released a fourth drop of swimsuits and coverups with Pacsun, a partnership that was created in the summer of 2021 to commemorate her 18th birthday.

As a young performer, ANNA POPPLEWELL (Kate) had starred in several telefilms and feature films—including “Mansfield Park” and “Girl with a Pearl Earring”—before starring as one of the quartet of siblings at the heart of the $1.5 billion juggernaut “The Chronicles of Narnia” series of three films, beginning with 2005’s “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” following with “Prince Caspian” and “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”

Since then, Popplewell has starred in such features as “Payback Season,” “Freak of Nurture,” “The Gallery” and “You Are Here.” Her addition small screen credits include the popular series “Reign”; the mini-series “Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn,” “Daniel Deronda” and “Love in a Cold Climate”; and the telefilms “Brave New World,” “Dirty Tricks” and “Frenchman’s Creek.”

KATELYN ROSE DOWNEY (Sophie) is a 14-year-old Irish actor, born and raised in south Dublin.

Downey is a World Champion Irish Dancer and has trained in various styles of dance and acrobatic arts from a young age.

She began her acting career in late 2021, after being spotted in an online acting class. She gained her first professional credit in the 20th Century Studio/Hulu Original Film “The Princess” (2022), where she acted opposite Joey King as Princess Violet. She was most recently seen in the AMC/RTE crime drama series “Clean Sweep,” starring opposite Irish actress Charlene Mc Kenna.

Downey landed the role of Sophie in “The Nun II” after a lengthy audition process / open casting call and this marks her second studio film.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS…

MICHAEL CHAVES (Director) made his feature directorial debut in 2019 with “The Curse of La Llorona” for New Line Cinema, which earned more than $123 million at the global box office. Chaves went on to direct “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,” with Atomic Monster and The Safran Company producing. “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” is the eighth film in The “Conjuring” Universe, which has generated more than $2.1 billion worldwide and is the largest horror franchise in history. Chaves also directed the award-winning short “The Maiden.”

An accomplished commercial director, Chaves has directed spots for such clients as Microsoft, Samsung, Audi and Ford. He also directed Billie Eilish’s acclaimed “Bury a Friend” music video.

IAN GOLDBERG’s (Screenplay by) writing credits with Richard Naing include Ciarán Foy’s “Eli” and André Øvredal’s “The Autopsy of Jane Doe.”

Goldberg served as executive producer, as well as frequent writer, of the successful long-running AMC series “Fear the Walking Dead,” and he continues to write for the show.

Goldberg also served as executive producer on both spin-offs “FTWD: Dead in the Water” and “FTWD: The Althea Tapes.” He created/wrote the series “Dead of Summer,” worked as producer/writer on ABC’s long-running “Once Upon a Time” and wrote for the series “Krypton.” His television writing credits also include CBS’ “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” ABC’s “Flashforward” and FOX’s “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.“

RICHARD NAING’s (Screenplay by) writing credits with Ian Goldberg include Ciarán Foy’s “Eli” and André Øvredal’s “The Autopsy of Jane Doe.”

Naing served as co-producer and writer for the successful AMC series “Fear the Walking Dead.” He also wrote for Golberg’s “Dead of Summer” and served as co-executive producer on Hulu’s “Behind the Mask,” the docuseries about the colorful, unusual world of sports mascots.

AKELA COOPER (Screenplay by / Story by) wrote the movie “M3GAN,” from Universal/Blumhouse, with James Wan/Atomic Monster producing and Gerard Johnstone directing. She also wrote the screenplay for James Wan’s “Malignant,” penning the story with Wan, for New Line Cinema.

On the television side, Cooper was a co-executive producer on “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” series for CBS All Access, and also wrote two of the episodes; she also wrote on Netflix’s “Magic Order” for Atomic Monster. Previously, she worked on Steve DeKnight’s Netflix series “Jupiter’s Legacy,” based on a comic book series by Mark Millar. Cooper also worked on Netflix/Marvel drama series “Luke Cage,” the Ryan Murphy FX series “American Horror Story,” as well as “The Hundred,” “The Witches of East End,” “Grimm” and “V.” Upcoming for Cooper is “M3GAN 2.0” and serving as co-executive producer on “The Magic Order.”

PETER SAFRAN (Producer) recently took the helm of DC Studios, a newly formed division of Warner Bros. Discovery, partnering with his “The Suicide Squad” writer/director James Gunn as co-chairs and co-CEOs to lead DC’s film, TV and animation efforts.

Safran is the President and founder of The Safran Company, a leading Hollywood production company.

With over $3 billion in worldwide box office in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures/New Line Cinema, Safran continues to produce the mega-successful “Conjuring” franchise, which has grossed almost $2 billion, becoming the highest-grossing horror franchise of all time. “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” was the last installment to hit theaters and grossed over $180 million at the global box office.

Safran reteamed with “Conjuring” partner James Wan for the 2018 film “Aquaman,” which garnered an astonishing $1.14 billion worldwide. He collaborated with “Annabelle: Creation” director David F. Sandberg on one of 2019’s most critically hailed films, “SHAZAM!,” which grossed over $364 million worldwide.  Up next, Safran serves as producer of 2023’s “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.” Safran also forayed into the episodic space with “Peacemaker,” a spin-off of “The Suicide Squad,” featuring John Cena, streaming on HBO Max.  In 2019, John Rickard (“Rampage”) joined The Safran Company as President of Production and together they produced the romantic comedy “I Want You Back” for Amazon, directed by Jason Orley (“Big Time Adolescence”) and starring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate.  Most recently up for the banner was the DC entry “The Blue Beetle,” the first-ever appearance of the fan-favorite Super Hero to come to the big screen.

JAMES WAN (Producer) is regarded as one of the most creative filmmakers working today. Breaking into the international film world as co-creator of “Saw” and currently directing his sequel to the smash hit “Aquaman,” Wan is a visionary with a dynamic career directing both studio and independent films in genres including horror, superhero, action, thriller, adventure, mystery and fantasy. He is a world-builder pioneering no fewer than five franchises – “Aquaman,” “The Conjuring,” “Insidious,” “Saw” and “Mortal Kombat” - and “M3GAN,” the sci-fi horror/thriller that became an instant global hit and began the “M3GAN” universe, all of which captured the zeitgeist of the moment around the world. Wan is also in an elite group of directors with two films that have earned over $1 billion dollars at the worldwide box office – “Furious 7” (the first Universal Studios film to hit $1 billion) and “Aquaman.”

Wan launched his own production company, Atomic Monster, in 2015, to produce both film and television/streaming projects. To date it has released more than 10 films and five series working with companies including Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal, Netflix, Amazon, CBS, Sony TV, WBTV, 21 Laps, Gaumont and Blumhouse. As a director, Wan’s next film is the DC Super Hero film “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” which will be released this December. It is the sequel to the box office smash “Aquaman” (2018), DC’s highest worldwide grossing film of all time.

Wan’s “Malignant,” an original horror/thriller that allowed him to go back to his indie filmmaking roots, was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2021. Wan directed, produced and had a story by credit on the film. In The “Conjuring” Universe, Wan directed the first two films in the franchise about the famous paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. Warner Bros. Pictures released the first in 2013 and the sequel in 2016. He also served as co-writer and producer on “The Conjuring 2.” To date, the global box office for the entire “Conjuring” Universe is over $2 billion dollars and is the most financially successful horror franchise ever.

Wan directed Universal Pictures’ critically acclaimed “Furious 7,” which was released in 2015 and was #1 at the US box office for 4 weeks – currently #11 of all-time at the worldwide box office.

Co-creator of the popular “Insidious” franchise, Wan directed FilmDistrict’s “Insidious” (2010) and “Insidious: Chapter 2” (2013). He also had a story by credit on “Insidious: Chapter 2.” Wan served as producer on “Insidious: Chapter 3” (2015), “Insidious: The Last Key” (2018) and most recently “Insidious: The Red Door,” directed by Patrick Wilson, which was released on July 7, 2023. For his first feature, Wan was the co-creator and director of “Saw,” (2004) which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004. He also has served as executive producer for the entire “Saw” franchise.

As producer, Wan’s film credits include “Annabelle” (2015), “Lights Out” (2016), “Annabelle: Creation” (2017), “The Nun” (2018), “The Curse of La Llorona” (2019), “Annabelle Comes Home” (2019), “Mortal Kombat” (2021), “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” (2021), “Malignant” (2021), “There’s Someone Inside Your House” (2021) and “M3GAN” (2023), on which he also has a story by credit. In television, Atomic Monster executive produced several series across genres, including “MacGyver” (2016), “Swamp Thing” (2019), “Aquaman: King of Atlantis” (2021), “I Know What You Did Last Summer” (2021), “Archive 81” (2022) and “Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles.” Up next, Wan will executive produce the ”Untitled Ian McCulloch Project” for Peacock, which the streamer recently picked up for a full series order.

Upcoming films for Wan as producer are Stephen King’s “Salem’s Lot” for New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Picture’s “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,” New Line’s “The Nun II” and “Mortal Kombat,” also for Warner Bros. Born in Malaysia and raised in Australia, Wan is the recipient of the Australians in Film 2016 Fox Studios Australia International Award and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

 

TRISTAN NYBY’s (Director of Photography) ongoing collaboration with Michael Chaves began when Nyby served as cinematographer on Chaves’ television series “Chase Champion” for Nickelodeon. Since then, the pair have worked together on the award-winning short “The Maiden”; the videos “Billie Eilish: Happier Than Ever” and “Billie Eilish: Bury a Friend”; additional photography on “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It”; and “The Nun II.”

Nyby has also collaborated with Danny Boyle on the series “Business Doing Pleasure” and the short “Brunch So Hard.” His additional credits include working as director of photography with such directors as Brian Tetsuro Ivie (“Cancer Alley”), Bryan Bertino (“The Dark and the Wicked,” which netted Nyby Best Cinematography at Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival) and Rucha Humnabadkar (“For Here or to Go?”), among others.

STÉPHANE CRESSEND (Production Designer) grew up in Paris east suburbs. After a degree in maths applied social sciences (statistics), he became deeply involved in the alternative music scene of the late ‘80s. Cressend worked as a musician, created a record label—importing, distributing and producing, as well as setting up tours and gigs in France and Europe.

After an accidental appearance in a feature film as a background actor in 1989, Cressend quit the music business and reoriented his path. In 1991, he focused on the art department and joined his first team, led by Italian designer Ezio Frigerio and soon-to-be production designer Olivier Raoux  (“La Vie en Rose”). From driver, buyer, propmaster, set decorator, art director and supervising art director for French and international movies (shooting mainly in France and collaborating with some of the best international designers, he stepped up to art director in 2015.

His recent credits include “Asteroid City,” “The Wannabes,” “The Last Duel,“ “The French Dispatch,” “Ford v Ferrari,” “Dunkirk” and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.”

GREGORY PLOTKIN’s (Editor) editing of Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning smash “Get Out” garnered Plotkin Best Editing nominations from more than 10 national critics and awards groups, including American Cinema Editors and Independent Spirit Awards.

Plotkin has also sat in the director’s chair on multiple occasions, having helmed 2020’s “Crimson,” 2018’s “Hell Fest” (which he also edited), the 2016 short “Black Mass” and the 2015 chapter in the successful horror series “Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension.” He has also served as executive producer on “Countdown” and “Nightlight,” and co-producer (as well as editor) on several entries in the “Paranormal Activity” franchise, as well as co-producer on “Area 51.”

Plotkin’s additional feature film editing credits include “Secret Headquarters,” “Come Play,” “Game Night,” “Happy Death Day,” “Lucky,” “Paranormal Activity 2,” “Burning Palms,” “He’s Just Not That Into You,” “Disfigured,” “Untraceable,” “Fracture,” “The Break-Up,” “Dreamer” and “Friday Night Lights.” His work will next be seen in the upcoming sci-fi adventure “Distant,” starring Anthony Ramos, Naomi Scott, Kristofer Hivju and Zachary Quinto.

AGNÈS BÉZIERS (Costume Designer) has been honing her art and furthering her passion for design for more than two decades. Coming originally from the world of fashion, she studied at the prestigious ESMOD School, where she majored in stage costume. This training would give her both structure as well as an openness to multiple cultures and disciplines. Then, at the beginning of 2000, she met director Thomas Bary, for whom she created a gallery of imaginative offbeat characters for the film “Les Enfants de Timpelbach.”

Combining epochs and style in her own way, Béziers brings a very personal signature to her craft. Armed with a vision, she is fascinated by the whole cinematographic spectrum of each of her projects. Agnès handles fabric like a language. She composes a “grammar of clothing” inspired by the narrative arc and the personalities of the characters, and creates costumes sketches with fabric samples. She then paints the extras while defining the visual palette of the film.

Béziers pilots her vision precisely and consistently to mark and bring substance to the evolution of the narrative. By establishing a close collaboration with the director, she enriches the visual identity of the entire film by sharing an artistic direction of her own. Agnès Béziers’ devotion to her calling is reflected in cinematographic works of all genres—from the thriller “La Traque d’Antoine Blossier” and independent film “Qu’un Sang Impur” by Abdel Raouf Dafri, to the adaptation of comic strip “Le Petit Spirou” by Nicolas Bary; the literary novel “Rémy sans Famille,” war film “L’Ordre et la Morale” by Mathieu Kassovitz and the sci-fi “Oxygen” by Alexandre Aja, to the creation of character design for video grames (Ubisof), as well as the television series based on these characters.

Her commitment to cinema is reflected through her long-lasting relationships with the outstanding directors of her career; Nicolas Bary and his poetic imagination; Mathieu Kassovitz and his narrative force; Antoine Blossier and his masterful realization of varied genres; Abdel Raouf Dafri with his determined and concise scriptwriting; as well as Alexander Aja and his unique, personal mastery of the horror genre and films.

MARCO BELTRAMI (Composer) received Academy Award nominations for his iconic scores to “3:10 to Yuma” and “The Hurt Locker.” He has lent his voice to such unique hit films as “Live Free or Die Hard,” “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,” “I, Robot” and the “Scream” series. The prolific Beltrami has composed scores for an impressive array of projects crossing genres and mediums that includes: “Renfield,” starring Nicolas Cage and Nicholas Hoult; the action adventure “Plane,” starring Gerard Butler; the latest entries in the long-running “Scream” franchise; the Ben Affleck-starrer “Deep Water”; David E. Kelley’s “Nine Perfect Strangers”; the mystery thriller “No Exit”; the Andy Serkis-directed smash “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” starring Tom Hardy; the “Fear Street” trilogy for Netflix; the hit “A Quiet Place” and its sequel, both directed by John Krasinski and starring Emily Blunt; James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari,” starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale; and André Øvredal’s “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.”

His other scores include “The Snowman,” starring Michael Fassbender; “The Shallows,” starring Jack Huston and Blake Lively; “The Homesman,” directed by Tommy Lee Jones; the zombie comedy “Warm Bodies” for Summit Entertainment; the latest installment of the Bruce Willis action series “A Good Day to Die Hard”; “Snowpiercer,” starring Chris Evans and directed by Bong Joon Ho; the Brad Pitt action thriller “World War Z”; and James Mangold’s “The Wolverine” and smash follow-up “Logan,” starring Hugh Jackman. Up next for Beltrami is John Woo’s “Silent Night” and Len Wiseman’s “Ballerina.” Born in New York, Beltrami studied music at the Yale School of Music, then in Italy, before apprenticing with legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith in L.A.